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Twin Brook Capital Partners, the middle market direct lending subsidiary of Angelo Gordon, has appointed Timothy Wentinkas a Managing Director focused on its Healthcare Lending business.
Wentink joins the Twin Brook team from Madison Capital, where he was a Managing Director on the Healthcare Leveraged Finance team.
“With his proven history of success and extensive industry expertise, we are thrilled to welcome Tim to the Twin Brook team,” says Twin Brook Founder and Managing Partner Trevor Clark. “Private equity sponsors have become increasingly active in the healthcare sector, particularly in the US middle market. The addition of Tim will make
Fladgate has appointed corporate partner Anthony Shatz from RPC.
Shatz advises on high value and complex corporate transactions to both domestic and international clients. His client base is extensive, covering private equity, real estate, hotels and aerospace, and he has deep experience of both M&A and funds related transactions.
Fladgate’s Chairman, Richard Reuben, says: “We are delighted to welcome Anthony to Fladgate. Anthony’s arrival complements Fladgate’s ambitious growth strategy, building on last year’s success.”
Grant Gordon, head of corporate, adds: “Anthony’s expertise further bolsters the skillset of our expanding corporate practice. A natural fit for the firm, Anthony’s technical knowledge and wide-ranging
Burford Capital Limited (Burford), a global finance and investment management firm focused on law, has closed the Burford Alternative Income Fund LP (BAIF), a new private fund focused on post-settlement investments.
BAIF will invest in settled litigation matters, monetising a claimant’s settlement and other associated legal receivables. The solution serves to meet the needs of law firms awaiting payment of their fees and clients eager to release cash from the settlement, who find it attractive to secure financing against those expected receipts.
A variety of institutional investors made commitments to BAIF in the aggregate amount of USD297.25 million. BAIF’s investment
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has appointed UK solicitor Jane Scobie as a partner in the firm’s Tax Department in London. She was previously a partner at Dechert LLP in London.
Scobie advises clients on a broad range of complex corporate and commercial tax matters with a particular focus on private equity transactions including investments, private and public company takeovers, private fund formation and restructurings as well as other private funds issues. She also assists clients on employment taxation and share incentive arrangements.
“Jane’s extensive corporate tax experience and work with private equity clients in particular will further expand the transactional
SVK Crypto is leading a USD2 million series A funding round for innovative, end-to-end business management SaaS company, MakerOS.
With participation from EOS Global, MakerOS intends to use the funds to expand the company and integrate the EOSIO blockchain technology in their software platform.
MakerOS was co-founded by Mike Moceri and Joe Tavares in 2015. It is a cutting-edge, end-to-end enterprise management SaaS platform for product developers – used by providers of manufacturing services, designers, engineers, and light fabricators. It streamlines business processes and the production of digital and physical products, with the overall aim to increase profitability, efficiency, and security of the
Orion Food Systems (Orion) and Land Mark Products (Land Mark) have signed a definitive merger agreement to create a leading and fully comprehensive foodservice company to serve convenience store operators.
Financial terms of the transaction, which is backed by an affiliate of One Rock Capital Partners, (One Rock), were not disclosed.
Founded in 1983, Orion is a manufacturer and distributor of food products as well as a provider of foodservice solutions to the convenience and specialty retail channels worldwide. The company supplies locations in the United States and abroad with a complete portfolio of foodservice solutions from ingredients to
Nautic Partners (Nautic) has completed the acquisition of LindFast Solutions Group (LindFast), in partnership with LindFast management.
Headquartered in Blaine, MN, LindFast is a master distributor of specialty fasteners in the North American market serving a broad base of national, regional, and local distribution customers through its metric (Lindstrom) and imperial (Stelfast) product brands. As a master distributor, LindFast provides an important link in the fastener supply chain by offering a deep inventory as a “virtual warehouse” of approximately 130,000 low volume, slow moving SKUs that distribution customers need quickly but are non-economical to inventory and source themselves. These SKUs
Private equity firm M/C Partners (M/C) has held the final closing of its most recent fund. M/C Partners VIII (Fund VIII) at its hard cap of USD350 million.
M/C’s specialised investment strategy remains focused on investing in targeted high growth infrastructure and services segments of the USD1 trillion Telecommunications and Information Technology industries.
Led by Managing Partners Jim Wade, Gillis Cashman and Brian Clark, the team’s experience spans multiple economic cycles where they employ a flexible model investing in businesses in all stages from early formation, growth capital, consolidations, mature carve-outs and distressed acquisitions. M/C proactively seeks out well-positioned entrepreneurial
Kettle Cuisine, an artisan producer of refrigerated and frozen all-natural soups, has acquired Harry’s Fresh Foods, a privately held custom food manufacturing company based in Portland, Oregon.
The transaction strengthens Kettle Cuisine’s leadership in the fresh soup category as the only coast-to-coast fresh soup producer.
“Harry’s is a great business and a welcome addition to Kettle Cuisine,” says Liam McClennon, CEO of Kettle Cuisine. “Its strong reputation in the marketplace reflects its high caliber team members, customer relationships, and premium product portfolio, all of which fit seamlessly into Kettle’s growth strategy. Kettle remains committed to its culinary roots of artisan,
EQT is to bring in Nestlé through a minority stake in IVC Group (IVC) to support continued growth in the Company’s next development phase.
IVC also enters into a partnership agreement with Nestlé Purina PetCare EMENA. Through the partnership, IVC will be able to leverage the expertise of Nestlé Purina as a leading expert in pet health, pet nutrition and scientific innovation and gain access to Nestlé Purina’s unique product offering to support its leading-edge veterinary care.
For Nestlé Purina, this partnership will strengthen its collaboration with scientists, veterinarians and pet care professionals as key partners to help deliver advanced
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